I think on the point of build vs buy, what a lot of "buy" people neglect is that you can often cut a ton of use cases out of the product that you're paying for, and when you cut those use cases out then build becomes a really cheap proposition versus buying. Plus, when you buy you still have to maintain internal staff to manage the product. If you build, those people can also work on other things that advance the plot for whatever you're building elsewhere in the company.
If you have to make payroll and you're not interested in handling payroll business cases in your core business, absolutely buy payroll software. But if you need to spin up containers incidentally to your core business, maybe consider wrapping the same stuff Podman or Docker wraps if it makes sense. Going down a level of abstraction in this way can allow you to work more efficiently than if you just used those tools off-the-shelf.
If you have to make payroll and you're not interested in handling payroll business cases in your core business, absolutely buy payroll software. But if you need to spin up containers incidentally to your core business, maybe consider wrapping the same stuff Podman or Docker wraps if it makes sense. Going down a level of abstraction in this way can allow you to work more efficiently than if you just used those tools off-the-shelf.